Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-08
THE LATEST NEWS.

Certain Philadelphians carry heavy life
insurance policies. John Wanamaker ha'
$500, coo on his life, J. B. Stetson s5l5, 600, ant
Hamilton Disston 100000.
Five hundred troops have left Toulon fol
Madagascar.
The victims of the Bull collicry explosion
now number eighty-fve, and all of the bodic:
have been recovered.
Mgr. Rampolla del Tinduro, papal nuncit
at Madrid, has been invested with the Cardi-
nails hat.
The appointment made of Henry o. Bill.
ings as receiver of the land Office at Haley, L
T., has heen revoked and Mr.. Billings has
been appointed register of the land Office at
that place. EE
The Lighthouse Board has completed ar
rangements for increasing and improving the
illumination of tho Bartholdi statue of liberty.
A strong lens will be placed in the torch and
five additional electric lights will be placed
around the base, making thirteen such lights
in all, and q number of ~incandescent lights
will be placed in the interior of the statue.
The light to be placed in the torch will be one
of the most powerful fixed lights in the world.
1t is said that General Master Workman
Powderly has written several letters to con-
servative Knights of Labor in The Northwest,
condemning the course of Senator Burke and
Representative Robriak in attending Anarch-
ist Neebe's wife's funeral lately in Chicago.
He says: sBeing members of the Legislature,
they could not attend as individuals, but were
there in their official capacity, as far as the
public was concerned. much to the injury of
honest Knights of Labor" Powderly is
strong and outspoken in the matter, and docs
not hesitate to express himself thereon.
The steamer Etruria which just arrived
brought a long letter and sundry official doc
uments from the secretary of the Royal Clyde
Yacht club to the secretary of tho New York
Yacht club, making a challenge in duo form
on behalf of the new Scotch cutter yacht
Thistle, owned by James Ball, of Glasgow, to
race with any American yacht for Americas
cup, the international emblem which the Pur-
itan and Genesta sailed for last season. The
committee in charge Of the cup met to-day,
and in effect accepted the challenge, though it
will have tog 90 before the club for ratification.
An Inter-Ocean special from Peoria, Ill,
says: Orson G. Parmely died to-day at the
age of so years. In early days he was known
all over the country by reason of his extensive
system Of stages, which ran to all points in
what was then sthe great west"
1t is reasserted that Fitzgerald, Conserva-
tive member of Parliament for the borough of
Cambridge, is to be appointed under secretary
for Ireland.
Michael Davitt, presiding at o meeting OF
the National League at Dublin, said the very
stringency of the Balfour measure appeared to
him to be a favorable feature. He was no,
prepared to soy what i. might be necessary
for Irish manhood to do when naked tyranny
reigned in Ireland.
The locks on the canal were blown up by
dynamite recently near Defiance, Ohio, by
armed men. 1t will take half of the summer
to repair the damage done.
Tho agents for the Wilson line of steamers
received a cable that the Steamer Salermo, re-
ported disabled in mid-ocean, had again been
sighted. The agents think she will reach port
safely.
The snow blockade on the Inter-Colonia
railroad is an unprecedented one. A train
has been 100 hours covering two miles, and
the snow drifts where it now stands complete
ly cover telegraph poles. The Canadian Pa
cifc Railway Cancelled all outgoing trains on
account of heavy drifts.